The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-03-24
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They soak their potatoes before fry.
ing them in Russia.

In Bucks county, Pennsylvania. lives
a man named Buck Wheat.
In 1870 there were 34,527 idiots in
this country; in 1880, 1896.
Lecturers consider Ohio to be the
best state in the union for their bust
ness.
q There is one divorce in every four
and half marriages, a statistician
claims
A Boston firm will soon publish Col
onel John S. Mosby's personal reminis-
cences of the late war.
The Empress of Russia is not so &C.
centric as she was, which her subjects
attribute to advancing years.
The list of New York society peo-
pie who now write for the press or the
magazines foots up thirty-two.
1t is estimated by the chief of the
sanit..rv department of Paris that there
are nearly 100000 rats in that city.
The Gar of Russia threatens to send
any one to Siberia who ventures to sug-
gest that the Czarowitch's health is fail
ing.
The Rothschilds, who now control
all the quicksilver mines in the world,
are said to be intending extensive in
vestments in gold mines.
In Italy wine has never been known
to be so cheap as it is now. In one
part of the kingdom white wine sells
for five cents gallon.
One of the latest peach orchards in
the world is owned by farmer near
Orchard Hill, GA. 1t comprises 700
acres and contains $4,000 trees.
1t costs the taxpayers of Boston on
an average $4,000 a year to settle
claims against the city on account of
people who are hurt by falling on icy
sidewalks.
Some Boston women are beginning
to say that it gives them headache to
sit through sermon with their bon
nets on, and ask why they cannot take
them off in church.
A Il cent lunch stand having been
established in New York City, there is
a demand for more of them. The bill
of fare is soup, stewed fish, pork and
beans, coffee, milk and bread.
Inquiries into the depression of the
iron trade of Australia have disclosed
the fact that of a total of 5000 work
men about 1900 are unable to OBJ
tain employment at their regular work.
Mrs. Eunice Darling, of Hersey, Me-,
aged l0l years, knits 2 pair of stock
ings every day, besides attending to her
household duties. In the language
of the street, ''she's a darling, she's a
daisy"
In the county clerks office at San
Francisco, Cal, is posted up the fol-
lowing notice; Lady applicants for
position will please weep in the ante
room, rs the clerk suffers greatly from
damp feet. :"
Prof. Philip Paul, colored lecturer
of Jersey City. is the latest controver-
sialist to take the platform in opposi-
ton to the theories of Col. IngersolI.
The latter will now probably add the
mistakes of Paul to those of Moses.
A resolution was introduced at re-
cent meeting of an assembly of Knights
of Labor in Pittsburg, Pa, calling on
all members of the district to pay the
debts they have contracted with grocers,
tailors, etc. 1t was not acted upon,
however.
The Philadelphia Ledger thinks there
is an epidemic of rheumatism this win
ter, and says that crest for the brain,
the body, and the digestion, and a diet
of hot water and cheerfulness, is the
treatment best warranted to bring the
sufferers right.
Mark Twain explains why he does
not like to come to New York with his
wife. ''She is very anxious to have ev
eryOne think she dresses like New
Yorker" he says, land yet whenever
she buys anything in q store in this city
the clerk is sure to ask What hotel
shall | send this to, ma amp
The Yale university crew are having
built at Albany, n. Y, a new paper
shell, which will combine all the adj
vantages of shells hitherto used with
out the disadvantages. 1t is sixty-five
feet by twenty-five inches, one fc0t
longer and one inch wider than the
shell used in the race the last time.
How this old world does travel to be
sure! Here is the Stewart collection,
believed to be the finest private gallery
in the coustry, pronounced by Munkac-
sy as containing few great pictures,
and even those by the great artists not
good examples of their work. So much
for fashion, and more for critical know.
ledge.
When Sibley's command moved from
Texas to New Mexico during the late
war it was followed by thousands OF
UNDERGRADUATES, and during the few
years following they multiplied so fast
that the territory was almost Overrun
with them. Since that time, for some
cause or other, they have gradually
died out, until now there is hardly one
to be found in the territory.
An exchange is amazed at the an
nOuncement that captain of the New
York police has retired to private life
with$2j0, 900. At the same time we have
the startling story that burglar broke
into a country newspaper Office at Law
renee, Mass, and got 5000 out of the
safe. A sudden fiux of such items as
these is what destroys the public con-
tidence in the veracity of the press.
Emperor William of Germany recent
ly made a joke, for the first time in his
life. On the eightieth anniversary OF
his entry into the army one Of his doc.
tors tried to prevent him from going to
the open window to return the saluta-
tons of the assemblage outside. His
Majesty replied: Il must 90. 1t is
noon, and Baedeker's Guide says that
/ am always visible at the window at
this hour"
The proposed enterprise of New
York sporting journal to send a man